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Authors

Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University. He has worked in many fields, from cryptography through protocol analysis, hardware and peer-to-peer systems, to the economics of information security.

Stephen Lewis

I am a Ph.D. student in the Security Group, supervised by Ross Anderson. The topic of my thesis is the economics of information security, and my current research interests include game-theoretic modelling of attacker behaviour, and effort metrics for reverse engineering and vulnerability discovery.

Mike Bond

Mike Bond joined the security group as a Phd student in 2000, studying the security of cryptographic APIs. He is currently a research associate at the CL, and his particular interests are Trusted Computing, the EMV electronic payment system, formal analysis of Security APIs, and API security of online games. He works in the “War Room”, and once claimed that the only way to understand the wheel was to reinvent it.

Dan Cvrcek

Dan Cvrcek is working as a Research Associate in the Security Group at Cambridge University -- focusing on wireless (sensor) network security. He is interested in several areas of computer security, these covering sensor networks, reputation systems, smart-card security, and privacy. He has become an Associate Professor at Brno University of Technology.

Steven J. Murdoch

Researcher in the Security Group of the University of Cambridge, based in the Computer Laboratory for 3 years and is nearing the end of his studies towards a PhD. His research interests include covert channels and their analysis, the secure storage access to jointly-administered structured data, information security, anonymity and software engineering. Previous projects he has worked on include reverse engineering the Luna CA3 cryptographic co-processor, investigation of covert channels as a collusion mechanism in games and using covert channel analysis techniques to find weaknesses in the Tor anonymity system.

Gerhard Hancke

PhD student in the Security Group focusing on RFID systems.

Frank Stajano

Senior Lecturer in the Security Group, best known for his book Security for Ubiquitous Computing and for his contributions to ubicomp authentication, including the Resurrecting Duckling. His research interests include location privacy, security and usability, privacy in the electronic society, RFID and Bluetooth, as well as ubicomp visualization and 4G wireless networks. He holds 3rd dan in kendo (Japanese swordsmanship) and leads the dojo of the University of Cambridge.

Richard Clayton

Tyler Moore

Joined the Security Group in 2004 as a PhD student investigating social and economic mechanisms as tools for strengthening network security. Research interests include security economics, decentralised network (e.g., peer-to-peer and sensor network) security, and complex network analysis. Prior to joining Cambridge, he studied at the University of Tulsa, identifying several vulnerabilities in the public telephone network's underlying signalling protocols and developing techniques for detecting attacks on the telecommunications infrastructure. Moore is a 2004 Marshall Scholar.

Saar Drimer

PhD student; research focusing on the security attributes of programmable logic devices.

George Danezis

Cambridge Security group member from 2000 to 2005, I specialised in anonymous communications and traffic analysis. Now working in COSIC, K.U.Leuven (Belgium).

Robert N. M. Watson

BS in Logic and Computation, Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Worked for six years for a succession of companies (TIS, NAI Labs, McAfee Research, SPARTA ISSO) as a researcher and later Principal Investigator on various US government sponsored network and operating system security research programs. Lead research projects relating to operating system security research and development. Left SPARTA in 2005 to join the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. In my spare time, a FreeBSD Core Team Member, Developer, and founder of the TrustedBSD Project. Currently live in Cambridge, UK. No pets.